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NYTV: Glenn Beck’s Enemies List Grows By One King of the World, Tina Fey Translates Tracy Morgan, and More

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NYTV: Rahm Emanuel Goes Digital on Katie Couric

If you spent the weekend immersed in March Madness, the political maneuvering in Washington, or--perhaps more sensibly--some long overdue sunshine, you may well have missed Rahm Emanuel's appearance on "60 Minutes" last night. Honestly, don't sweat it. It was disappointingly by the book. But do check out this unforgettable Web extra. Unforgettable why? Well, let's Read More

Curious George’s ABC Adventure

On the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 10, George Stephanopoulos was sitting in the Good Morning America studio, overlooking Times Square, crossing his legs. Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper sat a few feet away. Outside a blizzard was swirling. Viewers were snowed in.

Mr. Stephanopoulos sized up his guests. Ms. Lauper was wearing a black floppy Read More

D-Day at CBS News

On the evening of Monday, Feb. 1, Katie Couric, anchor of the CBS Evening News, was wearing red. For the next half-hour, she tore through the headlines. There were allegations of bigotry among the federal air marshals in the U.S., an American church group accused of trafficking children in Haiti, faulty gas pedals in Toyotas, Read More

A Bright Spot in the Leno Debacle? The Failure of NBC’s Cynical Strategy

Jay Leno jammed his hands in his suit pockets. He looked up at the crowd. No matter how much your network mucks things up, Mr. Leno had learned long ago, you still have to entertain the audience. After all, jokes about Tiger Woods' penis don't tell themselves.

"This week, the video game publisher Electronic Arts Read More

No Dumbos! At CBS, Elephants Pull in Ratings

OVER THE YEARS, Bob Simon has reported for CBS News on everything from the Vietnam War to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait to the Israel-Palestine conflict. This past Sunday on 60 Minutes, Mr. Simon returned to an even heavier subject-elephants.

"Elephants communicate in a complicated, sophisticated language that scientists are trying to decipher and compile Read More

Doc Maker, Moore Collaborator, Shopping Film on Bush’s Murky Military Service

Documentary filmmaker and longtime Michael Moore collaborator Meghan O’Hara is currently working on a feature-length documentary about George W. Bush’s military service in the Texas Air National Guard, The Observer has learned.

Ms. O’Hara, who field-produced Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, is in the early stages of getting the project off the ground. Read More

Morning Joe, Piping Hot a Year Ago, Steadily Loses Steam

Joe Scarborough held up a copy of The New York Times. It was Monday, Nov. 16, and earlier in the morning The Times had published a piece about Newsweek, which had recently laid off 13 staffers. Quarterly ad revenue at the newsweekly was down 48 percent versus last year. That said, according to The Times, Read More

From High Chairs to Anchor Chair

For 18 months following his abrupt departure from WNBC-4, courtesy of a buyout in the summer of 2008, Rob Morrison, the station’s erstwhile morning news anchor, wrestled with the question of life after journalism. He wrote a children’s book about his wife’s cat, Happy. He started a blog, “Daddy Diaries: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Anchorman,” Read More

In Recession, Money Honeys Get Company From Grumpy Old Dudes

In mid-October, the morning after the Dow Industrial Average topped the 10,000 mark for the first time in ages, a young, energetic TV reporter for the Fox Business Network (FBN) named Sandra Smith briefed Don Imus and his viewers on the state of the markets. She does this a couple times an hour, every morning. Read More

It’s On: CBS News Investigates Letterman Scandal

Over the past year, Armen Keteyian, the chief investigative correspondent for CBS News, has reported on cyber-thieves in New Jersey, murder-for-hire plots in Wisconsin and teenage bomb-makers in Atlanta. But these days, Mr. Keteyian is hard at work on a story much closer to home—namely, alleged blackmail plots within his own newsroom.

On Oct.3, two Read More

60 Minutes Football Piece Is Quite Rather-esque

Last week, on Friday, Oct. 9, Wayne Nelson, the executive producer for Dan Rather Reports, was sitting in his office at HDNet’s headquarters in New York when an incredulous staff member ran in. Have you seen the promos for this weekend’s 60 Minutes, producer Meredith Ramsey asked? The clips touted an upcoming piece by Bob Read More

Bizarre Late Night Love Triangle

You can’t be victimized by criminals, explained David Letterman on the Late Show Monday night. You have to push back.

Outside the fortified walls of the Ed Sullivan Theater, a full moon hung in the sky. Mr. Letterman must have been tired. For the past several weeks, not only had he been pushing back, Read More

Watch Your Backs, MSNBC! Imus Can See You!

Not long ago, shortly after dawn, Don Imus sat behind a live microphone and let his mind linger for a moment on Hillary Clinton’s wardrobe. The day before, he had watched Harry Smith on CBS’s Face the Nation interview Secretary of State Clinton about such things as Iran’s nuclear ambitions. What, Mr. Imus now wondered, Read More

HBO, The Writers’ Network

Not long ago, in the spring of 2009, Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, the husband-and-wife writing team, were running late on a crucial project. In a few short weeks, their half-hour series, Hung, would be premiering on HBO. At the time, they were busy cutting the all-important title sequence. On the morning it was due, Read More